strongSwan NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	63540
Class:	Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE:	CVE-2013-6076
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Nov 01 2013 12:00AM
Updated:	Apr 13 2015 10:20PM
Credit:	Volker Ruemelin
Vulnerable:	strongSwan strongSwan 5.1 strongSwan strongSwan 5.0.4 strongSwan strongSwan 5.0.3 strongSwan strongSwan 5.0.2
Not Vulnerable:	strongSwan strongSwan 5.1.1

strongSwan NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of Service Vulnerability

strongSwan is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability due to a NULL pointer dereference condition.

Successfully exploiting this issue may allow an attacker to crash the affected application causing denial of service condition.

strongSwan 5.0.2 through 5.1.0 are vulnerable.

strongSwan NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of Service Vulnerability

Currently, we are not aware of any working exploits. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

strongSwan NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references or vendor advisory for more information.

strongSwan NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of Service Vulnerability

References:

• strongSwan Denial-of-Service Vulnerability (CVE-2013-6076) (strongSwan)
  
• strongSwan Homepage (strongSwan)